Washington - Named after George Washington

The state flag and the state seal are similar. Passed in 1923, Washington state law describes the flag as having dark green bunting with a state seal in the center. It is the only state flag that is green. It is also the only state flag with a picture of a president.

 

Washington Facts and Trivia

• Washington state produces more apples than any other state in the union.
• Washington state has more glaciers than the other 47 contiguous states combined.
• Washington state's capitol building was the last state capitol building to be built with a rotunda.
• Everett is the site of the world's largest building, Boeing's final assembly plant
• Medina is the home of the United States wealthiest man, Microsoft's Bill Gates.
• The Northwestern most point in the contiguous U.S. is Cape Flattery on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. 
• he highest point in Washington is Mount Rainier. It was named after Peter Rainier, a British soldier who fought against the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
• The Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge at Evergreen Point is the longest floating bridge in the world. The bridge connects Seattle and Medina across Lake Washington.
• The oldest operating gas station in the United States is in Zillah.
• Washington's state insect is the Green Darner Dragonfly.
• The world's first soft-serve ice cream machine was located in an Olympia Dairy Queen.
• Starbucks, the biggest coffee chain in the world was founded in Seattle.
• Spokane was the smallest city in size to host a World's Fair. - 1974
• Puget Sound's many islands are served by the largest ferry fleet in the United States.  
• By the turn of the 20th century, Aberdeen had the distinction of being "the roughest town west of the Mississippi" because of excessive gambling, violence, extreme drug use and prostitution (the city remained off-limits to military personnel into the early 1980s). 
• During the Great Depression, a series of hydroelectric dams were constructed along the Columbia river as part of a project to increase the production of electricity. This culminated in 1941 with the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam, the largest dam in the United States.  
• In 1980, the northeast face of Mount St. Helens exploded outward, destroying a large part of the top of the volcano. 
• Washington is home to many innovative Internet companies, including Amazon.com, Classmates.com, Whitepages.com, and Marchex.
• The percentage of non-religious people in Washington is the highest of any state, and church membership is among the lowest of all states.
• The state of Washington is one of only seven states that does not levy a personal income tax. 
• Washington is home to four of the five longest floating bridges in the world: the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge and Homer M. Hadley Bridge over Lake Washington, and the Hood Canal Bridge connecting the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas.
• Three ships of the United States Navy, including two battleships, have been named USS Washington in honor of the state.